After my previous Anon (the others, plus @ladyjane-lj's ask will kindly have to wait my long, 4 days week-end starting tomorrow evening, thank you), I really needed this:

I very much prefer this simple and heartfelt Elizabethan tune to what I just read and posted.

And, of course, Alfred Deller's unique voice. Pure bliss.

One of my soft spots is a high male voice and a low female voice singing together. Here's my absolute favourite, countertenor Philippe Jaroussky together with Natalie Stutzmann singing parts of "Son nata a lagrimar" from Handel's opera Giulio Cesare.

Youtube:

The song that got me into Baroque music 🎶

One of my favorite English Baroque pieces. I used to sing it many years ago, but I think this is my new favorite performance. The lutenist weaves a while new realization of Purcell’s figured bass that’s super fresh, and the countertenot’s voice is smooth as glass, with ornamentation that kept me on my toes until the final resolution. And check out the text painting on “eas’d” and “drop;” cool stuff!! I think jazz fans would like this version as much as classical. 

Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd And disdaining to be pleas'd Till Alecto free the dead From their eternal bands, Till the snakes drop from her head, And the whip from out her hands. Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile.

--Music by Henry Purcell (1659-1695) text by John Dryden (1631-1700)

Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) - A Chloris

Wim Mertens, "Struggle for Pleasure", 1983.